Cheribakef
| Cheribakef in hieroglyphics | ||||||||||
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| Cheribakef Old Kingdom |
ẖrj-b3q = f Who is under his moringa tree |
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| Ptah-Cheribakef New Kingdom |
Ptḥ-ẖrj-b3q = f |
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| Thoth-Cheribakef Gr.-Roman. time |
Ḏḥwtj-ẖrj-b3q = f |
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Cheribakef (also Cheribaqef ) is a deity of Egyptian mythology . His name means “who is under his moringa tree” and identifies him as a tree deity, whose sacred plant is probably Moringa peregrina .
The main place of worship of Cheribakef is the Memphis region . His cult was already carried out in the Old Kingdom by the high priest of Ptah , the main Memphite deity, which is why he merged with this god over time. On a list of Ptah's names in the Ramesseum , he is referred to as Ptah-Cheribakef.
But he was also associated with other gods, for example he appears in the chapel of Nefertem in the temple of Seti I in Abydos as Thoth -Cheribakef. Since he was venerated in the area of an important necropolis , he was also integrated into the Osiris faith . There he is one of the protective deities of the mortuary of Osiris in the ritual of the hour watch.
A very similar, but much less documented deity is Hetepbakef .
See also
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history. 3rd edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 86.
- Ingrid Gamer-Wallert : Cheribakef . In: Lexicon of Egyptology . Vol. 1, Wiesbaden 1975, column 940.
- Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of Egyptian gods and names of gods - Vol. 6, H̱ - s - series Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 115 , Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1151-4 .